--- title: Watching a game before paying shows whether anyone ever wins. — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Watching a game before paying shows whether anyone ever wins. Who acts: Watching, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The magician's trick explained](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/) / 35 # The magician's trick explained, sentence 35 Watching a game before paying shows whether anyone ever wins. **Who acts:** Watching, anyone · **What happens:** watch, pay, show, win · **To what, where:** game · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Watching, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:35 # text = Watching a game before paying shows whether anyone ever wins. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 9 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | gerund | | a game | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **pay** | gerund | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | present | Watching | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **win** | present | anyone | | | | ever | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:35`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The magician's trick explained, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/34/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)